1/ Russian companies are blocking foreign IP addresses en masse in a bid to block VPNs, stranding thousands of Russians abroad without access to money, flight details, or taxes. Major Russian apps are also being repurposed to scan users' phones for VPNs and secretly obtain user data. ⬇️
❗️Reuters: Russia has cut oil output by an estimated 300000 to 400000 barrels per day in April following Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries and ports. The disruption, combined with reduced pipeline flows to Europe, marks the sharpest monthly decline in production since the COVID period. #Russia
I’m assuming they’re produced in China and moved via North Korea as the most secure, obscure smuggling route
⚡️ Eleven nations including Germany, Italy, and the UK are lining up to secure Ukraine’s advanced drone technology.
KALLAS: Russia isn’t gaining any ground on battlefield, and Ukraine is indeed making some headway, which is important. Russia isn’t winning. Their economy is not doing well. And we shouldn’t talk about giving them territories they have not conquered militarily in past 12 years.
NEW: IRGC Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi and members of his inner circle have likely secured at least temporary control over not only Iran’s military response in this conflict but also Iran’s negotiating position and approach within the past 48 hours.
Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate04...
Yikes! Always something…
We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI.
📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.
⚡️Lithuania, Latvia bar Slovak prime minister from using airspace for travel to Moscow.
Lithuania and Latvia will not let Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico use their airspace to travel to Moscow for Russia's Victory Day celebrations in May, he said April 18.
UKRAINE SIGNS DEAL FOR PAC-2 INTERCEPTORS WITH GERMANY/RTX
This is an interesting move. RTX is generally supplying the PAC-3 for Patriot batteries which is a smaller lighter missile. PAC-3 requires direct contact with the target - literally physical impact.
It’s also been found to struggle with
Terrorist and former "people's governor of Donbas," Pavel Gubarev, confirmed that the so-called "uprising" in Ukraine's Donbas in 2014 was entirely funded and coordinated by Moscow and carried out with Russia's military involvement.
Sounds more and more like going back to Obama’s deal with Iran.
Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"
Russian Navy frigate Admiral Grigorovich escorts sanctioned oil tankers through the English Channel, accompanying vessels linked to Russia’s shadow fleet. The move signals direct defiance of UK plans to intercept sanctioned ships transiting its waters. #Russia
Imagine that
Monitoring channels reported that Russia may plan another massive attack, with radio communications activity on combat frequencies.
This points to a high risk of overnight sorties by Tu-95MS, Tu-160, and Tu-22M3 bombers. The threat of Kalibr missile launches is also high.
It is crazy how few people know this:
Russia now occupies less Ukrainian land than it did one month into the full-scale invasion four years ago
Just to recap:
Russia is currently helping Iranian forces try to kill US troops.
In response, Trump is… lifting sanctions on Russia and threatening to pull out of NATO, which are the #1 and #2 items on Putin’s wishlist
Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was …
Marco Rubio.
After we win back the House and Senate, impeach him and pass the Disgraced Presidents Act. Let him pay for his own security with his crypto money. He should have been in prison since January 6.
Hey Congress,
Any President, regardless of political party, who threatens to order the United States Military to commit war crimes needs to be impeached immediately.
If he does give these orders, he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court.
So hilariously Putinesque.
Oh great. The US President is now back to publicly threatening to commit terrible war crimes because he started a war he did not understand.
He should be in prison for this. Attacking desalinization plants could spiral into a regional catastrophe.
Zelenskyy: I have received information from my intelligence services more than once that the Russians are taking satellite images of American bases.
I mean, this is the answer. Does Russia help Iran? Of course. One hundred percent.
An "unnamed ally" is very concerned about Ukrainian strikes cutting off global oil supply while their war... I mean, someone else's war 🤫... with Iran is affecting global oil supplies as well.
Sorry, we're busy playing the cards we don't have. Maybe check back later?🂡🂮🂭🂫🂪
⚡️ Finland pledges to check US weapons make it to Ukraine.
"What has been promised to Ukraine must go to Ukraine. That is clear," the Finnish Defense Minister said.
Marco Rubio suggested that the United States might redirect weapons originally intended for Ukraine to the Middle East.
The same weapons that Europeans are paying for through the PURL initiative.
How is this even legal?
💥🚨 Chronicle of alarms in Russia: 26.03 – 27.03
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